Newspapers / Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, … / April 13, 1893, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
V4 rflNSY 1 'IL' aft B j A DBMOSRATJC JO TONAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 36 MAXTON, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 189$. CI. CO A TEAK. Ex-Secretary of War Elkins inclines t tlie abolition of both the sword and the saber, on the grouud that they are no longer of the slightest practical use in actual warfare. The American Geographical SocTely lhas decided that Paul B. Da Chailla's 'stories about gorillas and dwarfa are facts and entitled to credence by old people as well as young. The New :Englan3 Farmer 13 authority ifor the statement that "the condition of the average farmer in New England, all things considered, is much better than that of the average farmer in most other sections of the country. One of the most striking features in connection with this age of electricity, remarks the New York Independent, .is the wonderfully large and rapid growth of books and pamphlets bearing upon the subject. i?ussia is not for war just now, re marks the San Francisco Examiner. The discovery has been made that a lot ot rifles with which she-had intended to teach her neighbors manners are too de fective to even kar.ii the dove of poaco that has been roosting somewhat pieca "riously. The native population of Hawaii num bers about 40,000, and is decreasing at "the rate of about 1000 a year. Accord ing to the New York Mail and Express, tree rum, free opium and the work of native Hawaiian quack doctors are the chief causes of ,he coming extinction of the Hawaiians. What will the popula tion bo in thirty years from now! Fresh Government clerks in Washing ton are tempted by offers of credit on all sides. This, explains the Atlanta Constitution, is ' because persons em ployed by the Government must pay the debts contracted while in office 01 suffer dismissal. When a clerk is tardy in set tlement the creditor can have the amouant of the debt deducted from the debtor's salary. During the year 1892 England published 4915 new books and 1339 new editions, or a total of 6254. Last year the figures were 5706. The increase ha been especially in the department of novels, ndmely 1147 as compared with 896 in 1891. Theology reports 528, philosophy 579, medicine 127 new pub lications, while law has only twenty-six, altho poetry has 185, history 293, and geography 250. , The New York Tribune maintains thit there has been no revolution in the pro duction of cotton since Whitney in vented the gin and took the "seeding" of it out of the hands of the old women and children. Now, however, there is a prospect ot another great change. . Over 600 machines have been invented in the last twenty years for picking the cotton from the boll, and all have failed to give satisfaction. But still another is to be tested, and cotton men believe it will be successful. It will pick, it is said, 10,000 pounds a day. An ordin ary field hand can pick of the short staple about 150 pounds a day, and of' the long staple about 350, so that the new machine will do the work of about forty men. Fifty cents a hundred pounds is considered fair wages in the cotton belt. The machine, therefore, will earn $50 a day. The managers of the Wcrld's Fair are already figuring upon receipts. They estimate that between eighteen and twenty million persons will pay fifty cents for the admission ticket, but this estimate is based on the assumption that the Fair will be open on Sunday. One official thinks the attendance and the profits will be something after this fash ion: "If the first day is propitious, there will be a large crowd, composed of everybody connected with the Fair in any way and all the temporary residents ; from that day on until the third week of May the crowds will not be overlarge: from this time until the end of June all those people of Chicago who will go away for the summer mouths will spend much of their spare time at the grounds. In July and August will come the for eigners, and they, with the Illinois peo ple, will make the turnstiles lively, j Much additional money may be taken in . nights during these months. September will - be the lightest month after May. j October will be a big month, as all who ' have put off their visits will turn out in force. The great days will be, first Il linois day; second, Indiana day; third, Wisconsin day; fourth, Michigan . or Missouri day. I would rate Ohio next. There will be lots of opportunities for gala occasions. The how to' do It rests with the management. Ten thousand dollars worth of fireworks on the lake on a beautiful ftaight ought to draw "100iOO people-lnat is 50,000 and so NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS. Newsy Gleanings from Cherokee to Currituck. Jno. P. Kerr has been appointed post master at Ashville. Paul F. Faison.a North Carolinian has been appointed an Indian Inspector. A plant to manufacture 500 barrels daily has been established at New Berne. Over fifty fish weighing 100 pounds each were caught at 8wepsohville in Haw river the other day. The police of Rtidsville are making raids on Bar-keepers who sell liquor on Sunday. Six have already been arrested. Thomas Jones, a colored man, was struck by lightning at Jacksonville, Ons low county, on Wednesday afternoon, and instantly killed. The young ladies of St. Mary's school, Raleigh who were injured by accident on the switchback railroad there,are recover ing. One will lose her eyesight. ; The newly appointed Minister Plen ipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Uni'ed States to Greece, Roumama and Servia is Eben Alexander, of North Carolina. Canning will be carried on extensively at Oxford, one company having just or ganized there with . $100,000 capital. This meau a good vegetable market and a help to the farmers around Oxford The Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Firemen, Order of Rail way Telegraphers and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen all met in joint con vention at Charlotte Sunday. It has been decided that the best and most practicable spot at which to locate the new quarantine hospital would be at a point above Deep Water Point, near Southport, on the east side of the chan nel, to the west of Dan's Rock. A forest fire invaded the premises of Jones' Female Seminary at All Healing Springs la9t Saturday aud burned down an unoccupied cjttage. The college buildings were in danger for awhile. Some of the girls worked like men in carrying water and extinguishing the flames. Henry Collins, a well knowu colored truck farmer near Fayetteville, hacked his head with an axe until he died last week. His miod was said to h ive been affected by the refusal of a young color ed girl to marry him. His sou had just before prevented his brains out. The comparatively small remaining long-leaf pine ditriet in Moore and Richmond counties has been s wept by the most fearful forest fires ever known in that section. Whole pine orchards have been destroyed, and the little town of West End was almost blotted out of existence. The loss cf property is al most incalcu'able. Talk of a Religious Boycott of the Fair Tkrkb Haute, Ind The Rev. R. V. Hunter of the Central Presbyterian Church of this city, who represented the American Sabbath Union and the Young People's Society for Christian Endeavor btfore the committee of Congress in op position to the opening of the World's Fair on Sunday, says it has been fully determined to test the legality of the ac tion which the directory is reported to be in favor of taking. The sentiment of opposition, he says, is as strong how as ever it was. He be lieves that from a financial standpoint the Fair management would be unwise in having an open Fai-, even if they could do so legally. He has been in cor respondence with the editors of thirty religious newspapers, and without ex ception they are" hot only opposed to open gates on Sunday, but balieve Chris tian people should lefrain from visiting the Fair at any time if the gates are open. Several of these editors are squeamish on the boycott phase, but express their in tention to ad fise their readejs of their own views on the subject. Mr. Hunter gays the boycott idea is repulsive to him, but '.hart The action of Christian people in this direc tion does not come under the de- scriptioa of a boycott. Itwould ba no more a boycott than is observed bv Christian people who conscientiously refrain from going to saloons or gimoung nouses, lie is of the belief that should it be decided open the Fair an expression of opinion will.be made by re igious bodies that will causa a faliiasr off in attendance more than enough to offset the receipts on the twenty-five Sundays. He remarked that the management no longer discusses the Sunday question from the standpoint of its being an ac commodation for wage earners, but that it is treated sole'jr with reference to the debit and credit side of the. ledger. His estimate is that not- more than ,100,000 persons will attend on each Sunday who would not pay the same admission money on other days. This would net $1,250,- 000 for the twenty-five Sundays. He is confident that 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 persons -who -would have visited the Fair not less than three days, will remain away. The minimum loss of receipts therefore, would be $2,250; 000. To Keep the Offiee in the Family. Hillsboro, Hill County, Tax. J. H. Mesdmer, who has -received" Judge Abbott's endorsement for the Itasca Post Office, may be considered a lucky indi vidual. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Dunn, was appointed Postmistress shortly after the inauguration of Harrison in 1889, and Mcssimer assumed charge of the office, conductiog it. for her. Later on Mrs. Dunn died, and- Me3simer's wife suc ceeded her, he continuing to perform the duties of the office. Upon the succession of Cleveland to the Presidency Messimer promptly start ed a petition asking for his appointment to the place in succession to his wife, and the fct,that he has the endorsement of his Congressman leads many to think him safe fjr four years more. He says his wife is a Republican, while he is a Democrat, r our years nence suouw mo Republican party succeed Mrs . Messimer will in all probability seek a vindication by retaliating against her husband and bringing about her reinstatement to her old olace " . - An Earthquake in Georgia. Augusta, Ga. A special from Lin eolnton, says that tw distinct shocks of earthquake were felt ajt that place Fri day morning. PALMETTO CHIPS. News and Notes From Here, There 6e Everywhere in South Carolina. " Jno. L. Sullivan gave an exhibition sparring at Columbia last week. C. W. Ingram will build a yarn mill at Cheraw. A Columbia druggist says that he has recently had several 'drummers" to solicit orders for bitters and tonics. The salesmen say that "there is a big demand for the strong bitters in most dry, towns." Elisha Young, colored, one of five men convicted of the murder of Alfrei Mc Aliley, colored, died in jail in Chester. A lecturer says that Peter Stuart (Mar shall) Ney fainted in the school room at Darlington, S. C, when the news of Na poleon's death reached him. He told Col. Benj. Rogers afterwards: "With the death of Napoleon my last hope .is gone." The authorities of Converse College have issued the invitation for the services at the College on the 21st of April The address is to be delivered by Governor Northen, of Georgia. An 'address on Education is to be made by Dr . Geo. T. Winston, president of the University of North Carolina. Deputy . Dukes arrived in Columbia with George Rush, who escaped from the Penitentiary in February, 1878. Rush was sent up for two years on the charge of grand larceny. He was caught in Orangeburg, where he has for a long time been quietly conducting a farm. He says that he escaped by his father paying the colored guard under whom he was working. He alleges that the bribe was only $12. SAD END OP A MERRY PICNIC. Four Out of a Party of Ten New Or leans People Drowned in Lake Pontcbartrain. N&w Orleans, La. By ihe overturn ing of a sail boat on Lake Pontcbartrain Sunday afternoon four persons, Mrs. Mary A. Kelly, Miss Agnes and Miss Mmie Flynn, her nieces, and Miss Effie Kelly were drowned. Several others wai formed the party narrowly escaped a sim ilar fate. The party, consisting of t n persons, all residing within a ttone thro v'ist each other in this city, had gone out to Milrie burg, a pleasure resort on the lake shore, for a picnic. The morning was spent in various sports and alter lunch a sail was proposed. A catr'gged yawl was hied from a boatkeeper, and the party started out h adiog for the Spanish light house. The weather was fine, and Mr. Kelly, who proftssed himself entirely competent sailed the boat along merrily. The light bouse was reached safely and the boat then put about f r the return to Milne burg. In tacking the yawl careened and her c. ecu pants strove . to right her by rushing to the opposite side. This cap sized the ves el and all on board were thrown strugg'ing into the water. The s reams of the women attracted the at ten tion of a party of men fishing from a skiff .ome di tance away and they put off to rescue at ence. William G. Mezenach, one -of the fish ing party, saved four of the occupants of the yawl and twd'others were saved, by his companions. Four victims of the accident sank before their eyes. The persona rescued were tak n to Spanish Fort, whence they vere sent to Milne burg and thence back to the city. Search was at once made for the bodies of the drowned, but up to midnight none had been found. " --- THE LAW'S SOLEMN WARNING. The Brotherhood a Conspiracy and Under the Ban of the Law. Toledo, Ohio. Judge Ricks read Judge Tatfs decision in the Ann Arbor injunction case, in which Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, was made a party. He decided that the whole Brotherhood was a con spiracy against the laws of the country, and that, inasmuch as Arthur gave Or ders that precipitited the boycott, the order for temporal y -injunction against Arthur as prayed for was allowed. ND JUDGE KICKS CLINCHES THE NAIL. Toledo, Ohio. Judge Ricks, in " the United States Circuit Court, rendered his decision in the case of the Lake Shore engineers, who, obeying the laws of the Brotherhood of Locomotive' Engineers, refused to handle Ann Arbor freight, as there was a strike on that road. The court held that Engineer Lennon, inas much as he had been twice ordered to move cars by the officials of the company and did not do so until ordered .to do so by the Brotherhood officers," after the boycott was raised, was guilty of con tempt of court. The sevent other men were discharged. ij bi ' . Shot One of the White Caps. Jonesboro, Ark. In the night at 1 o'clock a band of White Caps went to the house of George Black", a colored ten int on the Krewson fruit farm, one. and a half miles from town, to whip him for settling -in the neighborhood. - They broke in the door, and Black fired on the foremost man with an old army musket. Black then ran and one of the gang' thot him with a Winchester rifle, the ball going through his body. Both men were brought to town by their friends, where they received medical attendance. The.' man whom Black shot was William Met calf, a well-to-do carpenter. Black will get well. Metcalf is dying. Ha refuses to divulge the names of his associates in the affair. Sunol's Statute of Columbus. Washington, D. C. One of the Spanish ships of war coming over to this country to take part iu the mftval parade will bring to New York Sunol's statue of Uolumbus, which is to be erected in Cen tral Park by the New York Genealogical and Biological Society. The statue will cost $15,000 and is to be paid for from a fund raised by sub scriptions of $100 each. The monument will be unveiled some time in May, and it is hoped to have the presence on that occasion of the Duke of Veragua, the descendant of Columbus, who will then be in tbiscountry,.the guest of the Government. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The ' Latest Happenings Condensed and Printed Here. Carter Harrison was re-elected Mayor of Chicago. At Pittsburg. Pa;,' Dennis Clonnon, the wife-murderer, was hanged. The Arkansas senate has rejected the bill to establish a railroad commission. The Massachusetts Episcopal diocese has decided Aipon Dr. Grier, of New York, to succeed the late Bishop Brooks. . The Mormon Temple, 40 years in build ing and costing $15 000.C00 was dedicat ed last week at Salt Lake City, Utah, It is said that there are over 10,000 applicants for postmastership in the State of Georgia. . David Meriwith, ex-Governor of New Mexico, and Henry Clay's successor in the United States Senate, died at Louis ville last Tuesday, aged 90 years. The Arkansas Senate passed the bill conferring on the women of Arkansas the right of suffrage and making them eligible to membership on school boards. .. Count Herhectr&ismarck has consented to.rUn for the Reichstag in the interest of the agrarian . party. The candidacy was "offered to him by agrarians of the Parliamentary district, ground Jerichow. - A cowboy in Texas thought he would have some fun with a tenderfoot and ordered him to dance, but it worked dif ferently from what he expected. The stranger not only refused, but knocked the cowboy down,- took his gun away from him, and then made him dance un til he fainted from exhaustion. The colored men of Kansas City have organized an Afro-American Industrial League, the object of which is .to send a colony of colored people to Brazil. All transp station charges are paid by the Brazilian Government to those who desire to take up land there. BOtJNDARY LINE OF TWO STATES. The Supreme Court Refuses to Set Aside the Compact of 1803. Washington, D. C.In 1889 At torney General Ayers, of Virginia, filed a bill .with ' the Supreme Court of the United States, in which he alleged that Tennessee was exercising jurisdiction un lawfully over. a strip o territory from two to eight miles wide from the North Carolina line, a'du's west course in lati tude 36 degrees 30 minutes north to the Kentucky line. In the territory described Ayers claim ed that sei ious conflicts of jurisdiction had arisen, especially over matters con nected with the towns of Bristol, Tenn., and Goodson, Ya., and he asked that an agreement between the States of Vir ginia and Tennessee," 'under which the boundary liae had been established in 1803, be declared null and void.and that Virginia be quieted in possf ssion of the disputed territory.lying north of paralled V 39 degrees 30 minutes. In an elaborate opinion by Justice Field the Supreme Court to has declined to grant the prayer of Virginia, going into the historical facts exhaustively and dis cussing the law involved briefly. The court held that inasmuch as the two States had in 1803 adopted the report of the boundary commission ; that the com pact had been impiici'ly ratified by the Congress of theiUnited States and that for a period of more than 85 years the line laid down by the boundary com mission had been recognized as the true boundary, it, would refuse the petition of Virginia to nqw establish anew one. : 'Any mark on trie "old' line that may have become indistict or been destroyed, Justice Field siid, could, by proper proceeding at this term of the court, be ordered restored . .FEMININE FOLLY IN DAKOTA. Women Make a Riotous Assault on a Groggery and are Koughly Handled. Fargo. N. D. According to a Rolla special the W. C. T. U.. women of that place resolved to visit the "blind pigs" of that city and secure evidence with which to prosecute the keepers ef these places. A committee was appointed to make a circuit of the joints, and it marched bravely up the street, followed by two-thirds of the female population of the town. The first "pig" they came to was that presided over by L;n Bush. He attempt ed to prevent the entrance of the females, but they were not to be stopped by trifles. Bush was tossed to one side, and for the first time women stood within the sacred precincts of a North Dakota prohibition dive. An inventory of ctock was commenct. d and several bottles of "hop tea" and "porter'' were seized. While in the midst of their explora tions Landlord Bush returned with as sistance, and soon the a'r was full of an imated feminity. When the women gathered themselves up out of the street several were bleediig from brutal blows and all were somewhat disfigured. Pro ceedings for assault and batteiy were at once instituted against the "Piggers," but "the State's attorney knocked them out by a motion to dismiss. The women threaten dire -vengeance and will see the thing through. FLORENCE SCOURGED BY FIRE. Flames Raged for Hours and Destroy ed a Quarter of a Million Dollars. Florence, 8. C The business por tion of the town was destroyed by fire Mon'day'rnorninar. The flames started during the night and burned until after 9 o'clock. The Central Hotel, city hall and at least fourteen business houses were destroyed . The loss i3 estimated at $150,000, with only partial insurance. The fire originate 1 in T. G. Parker's grocery on Dargan- 'street, and spread southward to Cox's furniture store, then -westward to the city hall. Aftf r the fire was gotten under control at ths city hall an incendiary set fire to James Walter's store on Evans street and all the buildings from the Central Hotel to the Western Union Telegraph offica were destroyed.. A Farmer Weary of Life. Ft. Mill, S. C. William Donald, a prosperous farmer near here, shot him -self in the head, death being instan taneous. His mind had been deranged for some time. VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS. The Latest News Items in the Old Dominion. Lynchburg had a $30,000 fire Wednes day, a large tobacco factory being the important Luilding burned. The oyster season at Norfolk is over, and the fishing boats are beiqg cleaned up for the trucking trade, during which they will transport quantities of vegeta bles and fruits. Dr. Barker was knocked down in the yard at the Central Lunatic Asylum Thursday afternoon by one of the luna tic1, and painfully, though not seriously injured. The lunatic came up behind the Doctor, and struck him in the back with a pair of hand-cuffs. . During a severe thunder storm in Pitt sylvania county, Monday, two boys, Wil lie and George Crane, aged thirteen and seventeen years, eons of Mr. James Crane, living near Fall Creek, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. They were in a barn, supposed to be cutting feed for the horses, and while there the electric 6torm came up and the barn was struck by lightning. As the boys did not return to the house in time, , a search was made and the two children were found dead. An examination being made it was ascertained that the Deck of each had been broken and the skin about the neck and feet blackened. The body of Doc Young, a youth of about twenty, was found Tuesday in the woods near Doswell, in Hanover county. In company with another man of the neighborhood, Young started out Mon day morning to fight fires that were rag ing in the section. He became sepa rated from hisr friends, who could not account for his disappearance. Search ing parties started out to look for him, and Tuesday morning his body was dis covered in the forest, with nearly all of the clothing burnt away. . In his attempt to extinguish the burning timber the poor fellow had evidently fallen into the flames and lost his life. Florida's Exhibit for World' Toir. THp exhibit of Florida minerals now iu preparation for the World's Fair at Chicago promises to oe one oi a novel end most valuable character. Under the care of Solon B. Turman, manager of the exhibit, the arrangement will pro duce a most desirable effect. A cse or cabinet hai been built to receive the ex hibit, which stands upon a platform 181 bv 214 ftet in size. It is seven feet in Vinirrht. and in its outlines follows the shore and boundary lines of the State of Florida. At points relatively occupiea by Pensacola bay and the mouth of the fit John's river are doors allowiner en trance, to and exit from the interior of the cabinet, where the manager of the exh bit will hae his office, and where descriptive litera'.ure and maps of the mineral districts will be placed. On the outer side of the cabinet, about two feet from the platform, is a broad ledge, on which pebble phosphate and other min erals will be placed. Under this ledge, will rise a wall of rock phosphate col lectei from different points of produc tion A hnvft the iedce are three shelves vawu . -r . O which will hold several hundred glass jars in which various minerals, in both a crude and various minerals, m both a crude and manufactured form, will be exhibited. The exhibits will be arranged by counties for competitive purposes, the best exhibits securing awards. The cabinet wa3 constructed at the ex pec S3 of Mr. Turman by the McNeill Novelty Worke at Tampa, Fla., and the m.terial usd in its construction is a beautiful sample of Florida curly pine. A NEGRESS GETS $800 DAMAGES. A Southern Conductor Forced Her to Bide in the Second Class Car. New York. A jury in the United States Court awarded Mack W. Caldwell, a negress of Brooklyn, 800 daasges against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, because a conductor forced her to ride in the car provided for negroes. Caldwell and her three children had provided themselves with first-class tickets from Johnson City, Tenn., to Chicago. The conductor forc ed her to take the "Jim Crow" for ne groes, where she said had been annoyed by profanity and unseemly conduct of the other 'passengers. Her husband brought suit for $5,000 damages against the railroad company, and the case came to trial Thursday. The defense was that the laws of Tennessee permitted a com pany to provide separate cars for people of different color. Judge Walace in charging the jury ex plained that the Constitution of the United States guaranteed equal rights to all citizens irrespective of color. . Our Dead in Hollywood. Bichmosd, Va. A roster of the dead from the different btates wno are Dunea nf Tlnllvwnod has been furn shed the chairmen of the respective booths in the Richmond, UDmeaeraie tsaz&ar, ana me lists will be published under the auspices r.f ilio v.rintii rnmmiWccs in rhrr of ihe tents. The following shosthe num ber of Confederate soldiers from the re spective States who now sleep in the r.eierv : Alabama. 534 Arkansas. 19 Florida. 87 Georgia, 1,344 Kentuckv. 7 Louisiana, 268 Marvland. 23 Mississippi. 309 North Carjlina, 1,819 South Carolina, 882 Tennessee, 39 Texas. Ill Vircrinia. 660 Total, 6,162 Unknown deadin Hollywood t3.000 A New Form of Oath. Buffalo, N. Y. Several young at torneys in an office in the Ellwanger & Barry building were enjoying a hearty laugh as a' reporter entered. It seemed that one of them had just devised a most attractive as well as new form of referee's oath. It was: "You do solemnly swear that you will well and truly try the is sue joined in the case of Doe agt. Roe; thus you affirm; kiss the stenographer. n GENUINE KENTUCKY SENSATION. A Mother Takes Her Daughter's Hon or in Hand and Compels Seducer to Marry at the Point of the Pistol. Louisville, Kt. A special from Mor ganfield, Ky., says: There is a very sensational affa'r in this county. Miss Abbie Oliver, of Sturcis, Union county, a beautiful young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Oliver, was ruined about eight months ago. Henry Delaney, a young drug clerk of Bturgis. was charged with causing her downfall. He denied it and both parties sought legal advice but no proceedings were held in court. Tuesday evening about 9 o'clock, the mother of the girl entered Delaney's place of business in Sturgis, and at the point of the pistol forced him to accom- Eany her to a carriage outside, in which er husband and daughter were seated. The four drove to Morganfield, a distance of 15 miles, and at 3 o'clock a license was secured and the couple were married. The party started home, but when about three miles from Morganfield four armed men on horseback surrounded the carriage and began shooting. After the first shot Delanty jumj ed out of the ve hicle and ran to the attacking party, who were supposed to be his friends, and the firing continued. Miss Olivir was ehot through the head and her father in the face and right arm. Mrs. Oliver escaped without a wound. She ran the team at full speed for a mile down the road and turned in at a farm hou;e. The attacking party follow ed, shooting at every jump. The girl, who would have given birth to a child soon, was fatally wounded and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morn ing. Mr. Oliver is fatally wounded. Mrs. Oliver recognized the party and warrants of arrest for four prominent young men are being issued. The families are of high s'anding, and sjnipathy is with the Olivers. Mobbing is feared and the whole country is wild with excitement. Yes, We Want Immigrants. Of the 375,000 immigrants who landed at New York last year it is said that much less than the one hundredth part came to the Southern States. Only 166 of them came to South Carolina. The Memphis Commercial makes the point that "it is not altogether an unmixed evil that the South has shared but little of the great and' increasing tide of for eign immigiatiou," aud this is very true.. We need more people in the South. There is an empire here for development and there are opportunities possessed by no other section of this great couotry, but if we would develop the Sou h on the right lines if would preserve-the civilization of the South and the homo genity of the Southern people it must be accomplished by the proper regula tion of the people who are brought here. It is stated that a colony of Wnldenses have determined to establish a settlement in Western North Carolina, and they are the kind of peep'e who are worth having; we can well spare the pauper ioimigrants to the Northern Sta'es. News and Courier. President to Have a Country Home. Washington, D. C. The President and Mrs. Cleveland are going to have a home in the country as they did four years ago. By the end of the present month it is expected that the Middleton house on the Woodley lane road will be ready for their occupancy. The house is a large old-fashioned structure, loomy, comfortable, and oc cupying an ideal location. It is nearer the city than Oak View, which was the home of the President during his former Administration. The house stands on an elevated knoll surrounded with fine eld oaks. It is some distance back from the road, and commands an extended view of the roll inc country to the north, perhaps the most striking and pictu esque section of the fnnioui Rock Creek region. From the wkdows there is one of the most charming and striking views of the city to be found in this vicinity. In every way the house is larger than the ore at Oak View. There are tome thirty acres of land ab iut the house, and if Mr. Clevel nd is inclined to agricul ti ml pursu ts he can have ample swing for his fancy in this direction. BE KIND TO TRAMPS. Mr. Kriesing Gave One a Meal and Got a Legacy for $12,000. Pittsburg, Pa. - As a reward for giv inf a tramp a meal and helping him on his way, C. L. Krinsing, of the Home Dressed Beef Company, South Twenty second street, has been bequeathed $12,- 000. . A year ago Kiissing, while walking down Caron street, was acco3ted by a stranger, who told a harrowing story of hard luck. Krisaing was on h'S way to a restaurant, and, taking the man with him, bouoht him a meal. The tramp re fused to drink liquor, and that caused Kiissing to take additional interest in him. After the meal Mr. Krisdng gave the tramp his address, some change to help him buy a ticket to his home iu Kit tanning and left him. A few days ago Mr. Krissing received word from a firm of lawyers it Kittan -nicr stating that the stranger whom he had helped h :d died a:d left him $12, 000 that he hid corns into possession of a few week before his death. DID HE KILL HIMSELF? Walter Griffin Found Dead in the Woods with a Pistol Beside Him. Tallahassee, Fla. Walter Griffin, of De ron, Mich., was found dad ia the woods near the railroad one mile east of Tallahassee. There wag a wound in his face and a pistol lay by his side. Two yjung men registered at the Leon Hotel here a few days ago with no bag gage and paid their bill in advance. They took a walk Thursday and only one returned. That one reported this afternoon that his friend was missing and that he feared he had committid suicide. Search was instituted and the body was found as described. BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY. Mrs. Paint's Jewels Stolen from a Trunk in the Hygeia Hotel. Fokt M 'NROE, Va. Mrs. C'lintun V. Paine, the wife of Gen. Pitini1, j roniincnt into, ictyin Baltimore, whs rolilici of more t h:m f 2,000 worth of diamond. on lat Sunday at the HygHa IIo'cl. Tho hotel is crowded with wealthy propln fiona Boston, New York, Phi ndi-lpl i i, Baltimore, and other places, nul ;h dis play of diamonds and other costly jewels by fashionable women had bee l much commented upon by newspapers. On Sunday evening Gen. an1 Mr. Paine left their aj artments and went to ton. Much of Mrs. Paine'a jewelry, ii eluding three diamond bracelets and several soli aim rings, were left securely locked in a f-mall trunk b: side the bureau Upon leturn ing to her loom she noticed ihnt tho lid of the trunk was partly raided. Exami nation showed that every aitide of jew elry in the trunk was missing. The hotel manager was notified at once. Private police and the Ilygein dettctives were put on the ease, but no trace of the mi s lug jewels could be found. Gen. l'ainc t-deriphel to Phil-tdel-phia for a iletettivt; and also retailed the servic sofa Baltimore ngency. One of the bractlits, priz most highly by Mrs. Pa:ne, was a weddi'ij n ! t from her husb:ind. When the lohhery became known there was a general nish for ro mis. Jewel cue? were (artfully ex amined by scores of women at th! hotel but no other losses were reported. ALMA IS 17 AND A MURDERESS. She Stole a Revolver and Shot a Girl Enemy at a Dance. Atlanta, Gk. "Murder in the first degree" is the way the Coroner's jury defines the killing of Mattic Mooie by Alma Wooten. The shooting oceured at a dance on Thursday night, and the fatal shot was fired by a seventeen-year old giil, Alma Wooten. The dauce was a regular "break down." Alina Wooton was among the first to arrive, and asked if Matti ! Moore had arrived, and when told that, she had not, said that she was going to square au account with her. She had in her pocket a pistol, .stolon from her brother, with which to kill the girl. As she now adinils, she went to the dance cxpres-4y to shoot Mat tie. Altna w.is in the midat of a set when Mattie Moore entered. She'left her part ner on the floor and walked up to the feiid . "I want to see you just a minute," t-hc aid. "Come out here." Bhe was holding her hand. behind her, and suddenly threw it up and thot Mat tie in the abdomen. Tbi wounded wo man was tu.ken home and everybody at the dance agreed to keep the matter from the police. Alma Wooten remained in hiding while her victim continued to grow worse. Mattie Moore died, and when Altna heard of it she gave herself up. She says that Matt:e Moore told lies on her and she warned her that if f-he didn't quit she would kill her. She pavs. how ever, that she did not intend killing her when she fired the shot. PLUNGED INTO THE WATER. Three Men Killed on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. Jacksonville, Fla. Sou'h bound through freight train No. 209, on tho Jacks nville, Tampa and Key West rail way, wa3 wrecked at midnight. The eneine turned over on Buffalo Bluff draw-bridge, six miles below Palatka, and plunged into the river, carryiug six cars with it. A. C Knox, engineer, of ganford; J. II. Olmstead, fireman, of Birmingham, and J. A. Lewis, of Boston, a stockman, in charge of hordes and mules bound for Barbersville, this State, were kiil d. The train ws composed of four teen cars. Conductor Ward was in charge but scaped uninjured. R. R. Commissioners Issue a New Law. Raleigh, N. C The radroad com missioi issued the following order : That "all common carriers subject to the supervision of the railroad commi-sion shall provide such means or oppl'ane as may Le reoesaary to secure ihn careful band'ing of and to prevent injury to any parcel of bnggnge to which a check may be affixed ; that at fill minor stations, whe e no proper appliances me hiippliei and no regular depot h nd employed, it shall be required of ;h'i train hands to assi-t the ba.L'ggemas'er an I lift with care all bngynge from the enr dooia.'" A Sensation at Washington. WA8H1NGTOV, D. C. - Harry Martin, step-son of He-.ator Vance, of North Carolina, shot himself in the breast at th? residence of a lady on I stre t. One re port iu circulation is that he proposed to the young lady, w s rejected and then shot himself. The friends of both par ties say the shooting was accidental, snd it i impossible to oht iia tho exact hii tory of the circumstances attending the affiir. Martin is reported to be in no danger of death. A Town Burned by a Prairie Fire. Beaver City, Neb. A gale prevailed here from th? northwest, driving befons it a fier-.-e prairie fire. Many houses were burned. The entire population turned out and fought all day with the dimes. Whether there is any lo s of life is no; known. Much property his been d .--troyed. Toe fire is burning in Kansas. A large area has been burned over. Increase in Cotton Acreage. Houston, Tex. A report is issued of the cotton acreage in Texas. The replies are from correspondents and couuty judges. Seventy-six counties ure covtr e i, and of these "an increased acreage in e 'Jiteen counties it sai I to be about the same as last season. The 'reports as a wh 'le indicate an averge increae of fr .m fifteen to twenty per cent. The Wrecked Nashville Bank. Washington, D. C Comptroller He, bur.i appointed James W. Black more, of Gallatin, Tend , receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Nashville, 'IVnn Black more is president of the First National Bank of Gallatin.
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 13, 1893, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75